The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 25, 1929, Page 1

MAB boss tine ann, ad I! THE DAILY WORKER FIGHTS For a Workers-Farmers Government To Organize the Unorganized Against Imperialist War For the 40-Hour Week ¢ Batered as second- aily abi @ daily except Sunday by Company. tn Vol. VI., No. 198 . 26-28 Union Square, he Comprodaily New York SUBSCRIPTION RATES: In New York, by mail, $8.00 per year. Outside New York, by mail, 86.00 per year. FINAL CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents WORKERS MOBILIZE TO RESIST TERROR WAVE OF GOVT THRUOUT U.S.; THOUSANDS IN N.Y. PROTEST Defeat the Terror Campaign! Workers Denounce Gaston RUN To All Workers: The sentence of the Gastonia strike leaders to prison for 20 years, and the fascist mob-terror against the militant textile workers, are but the outstanding events in a nation-wide series of repressiong directed against all militant working class organizations and activities. In Los Angeles, six youth leaders of the Children’s Camp are sent to San Quentin Prison for 10 years on a sedition charge, while one of the defendants, an invalid ex-soldier, was driven to suicide by the prison tortures, In Chicago, all Communist Party leaders are arrested, charged with sedition, and bail fixed at the enormous sum of $15,000 each for 26 defendants, a total of more’ than a third of a million dollars, while authorities announce a determination to “exterminate” the Com- munist Party. Jn Pennsylvania, especially the Bethichem-Lehigh Valley district, | all working class organizations (even mutual benefit societies) are being cloged by police terror and arrests on sedition charges. Mass de- portations of foreign-born workers are being organized, and already begun to be carried out. In Kansas City, police raid and break up every mecting, and deny all civil rights. * In Massachusetts, infamous for the Sacco-Vanzetti legal murder, free speech and assembly are daily mocked by the police, The mass arrests and police terror in New York are well known. Workers! These are not separate, isclated happenings; they are part of a nationally-organized drive to crush the rising struggles of the workers against capitalist speed-up and rationalization. The pur- pose is to intimidate, to terrorize, the workers and to separate them from their only organizer and leader—the Communist Party and the revolutionary trade unions, American capitalists are keenly aware of the onrushing economic crisis, witnessed by declining production in key industries, by the col- lapse of the stock-market, by the gathering war-clouds. They firmly intend to solve their crisis by new wage cuts, speed-up, rationalization, at the expense of the workers. All resistance against their new attacks they intend to crush by all means. Therefore, they resort to such un- preeedented and brazen use of fascist methods, such cynical denial of al] so-called democratic rights of free speech and assemblage, such frank use of government machinery for class-suppression of the workers. Workers! You must understand how the capitalists are being helped in this drive by the American Federation of Labor and by the | In New York the bourgeoisie is openly boosting the | socialist party. “socialist” Rey. Norman Thomas, as a reserve to combat..the- rising militancy of the workers; the “New York Times” saying: “It has be- come ‘respectable’ to support the socialist,” . . . “Particularly in the silk-stocking district.” The capitalist Scripps-Howard newspaper syn- dicate openly rebukes the A. F. of L. for not doing more to head-off and suppress the workers’ strike movements, because it has not suc- ceeded in stopping “the industrial warfare in the South”—that is; stop- ping the workers’ fight for better conditions. And the “New York World” openly proclaims that if the revolutionary unions continue to organize the workers in the South, “There will be plenty more fascism” —“especially because of ,their Negro propaganda,” that is, because of Yncompromising insistence upon equality for Negro workers, Fascism, now so openly showing its face, is also directed to sup-+ press the rising revolts of the workerg in the old A. F. of L, unions, such as the Illinois miners. now throwing off the rule of the two rival clique of grafters and bosses’ agents, the Lewis and Fishwick machines. This fascism is the open alliance of the bosges, the state, and the A. F. of L. fakers. They are all fighting hand-in-hand to suppress the revolutionary workers and the Communist Party. s This wave of terrorism is at the same time part of the prepara- tions for imperialist war, both against the Soviet Union and between Britain and the United States—a war which must be prepared by sup- pregsing all working class movements at home, Workers! Give your answer to these capitalist attacks by a wide movement of protest! i Rally around your own t speed-up and against wage ¢ » Repudiate the A. F. of Fight to free the strike le: Fight to release the nz v Fight against imperia!ist Fatherland of the working c' Rally around and join the Cpmmianist Party, the organizer and leader of the struggle against rationalization and against imperialist war! Start a great recruiting campaign for the Communist Pari Build u pall working class organizations which really fight against the capitalists and thejr agents! Break down the capitalist terror! to gtrike, to mect and to speak! Mobilize all workers to defend our common class interests! CENTRA}T, COMMITTEE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U. S, A, he which really fight a ers who join hands with the bosses! Gastenia! | kers of Log Angeles! Defend the Soviet Un on, the only Win back the rights to organize, Class Verdict in Union Sq. FROM HALL, 500 Mass Demonstration jQ\N NMU BODILY 50,000 New Members Is Goal by Jan. 1; Anti-' Livingston Local Routs Imperialist League Protests Simons Jailing ‘Workers Delegation to U.S.S.R. Sends Protest; Many Demonstrations Throughout Country ‘N, M. U. Is Cheered Five thousand New York workers poured into Union District Square right after work yesterday and there roared applause at their working class spokesmen who sounded the protest againt the mill owners’ class verdict jailing the Gastonia strike leaders o worker ever got a Murderer of Textile Workers! Ella May!” they declared in s ners of protest. “Manville-Jenckes has told us we must not organize,” said {Otto Hall, Negroycandidate of the Communist Party for comptroller. “We say ,organize, and no capitalist class, with all its apparatus of repressiop, its police courts, thugs and soldiers, will stop us,” he continued as his audience broke into | wild applause. Communist Party Speakers. meeting were William W. Wein- | stone, candidate for mayor; J. Louis 'Engdahl, for Manhattan borough president; Juliet Stuart Poynta, for Bronx borough president; Fred Biedenkapp, secretary of the Inde- pendent Shoe Workers’ Union, for | Brooklyn borough president; Richard Moore, for congressman from the 21st District; Sam Darcy, for alder- man from th eighth District, and Rebecca Grecht, for assemblyman from the Sixth District. | Henry Buckley and Alexander, members fo the labor jury, told of | the jury verdict. “We must answer this verdict of the capitalist class,” Buckley said, strengthening our own class the Workers Intersation- nd in the politi the Communis e verdict against the G F Weinstone declar enly part of the whole system of increased repression against the working class and its ve leader, the Communist Party. Attempts nve being made to crush that Party in San Francisco, in Southern T- linois, in Chicago,—because as the fighting party of the workers, ‘it feared by the capitalist clas: vhich sees in it the signal of Ji jown downfall.” 2 “The verdict must be the spark to set aflame the struggle for the i release of all class war ,” said Engdahl. la gs are still in j We | jare ne: ig the tenth ann: ‘sary of the jailing of the Centralia work- (Continued on Page Three) TUUL MASS “EET r'Southern Mill Workers Want. wats © WHITEWASH NINE | Other Communist Party speakers | |and. candidates. who 2ddressed the | J “fair trial” in a capitalist court. The Labor Jury Verdict Is Not Guilty! Manville-Jenckes— -Manville-Jenckes—Who Killed ans emblazoned on their ban- fs BASS THUGS HO KILLED ELLA MAY Textile Mills’ Grand, Jury Votes No Bill GASTONIA,.N, C., Oct. 24.—The textile mill dominated grand jury | here today freed all of the murde: ers of Ella May. It refused to find | true bills for the mill*superintend- | ents, labor spies, and members of |joined the National Miners’ Union | UMW FAKERS Machine’s Attempt to Hold Meeting Opens Sunday | Industrial Union in (Special to the Daily Worker.) | STAUNTON, IIL, Oct. 24.—Mani- | festing their intense resentment at the lie circulated by the United Mine Worker fakers that the coal diggers | are “pleading” to come back into the old organizaion, machine officials were run out of the union hall here yesterday by angry miners. Five Rundred members of the Liv- ingston local and the immediate vi- cinity smashed the f:kers’ attempt | to hold a meeting there. When Dan Slinger, organizer for the National Miners’ Union mounted the platform and took over the meeting, the hall rocked with the tremendous display of enthusiasm. Thousands Join. In Staunton, Ill, 1,000 rearrested today. miners and voted unanimously to repudiate the Fishwick-Farringtop _ machine an dthe Lewis apparatus as tools of the operators, and threw out the U. M, W, charter. Whe nthe convention of the, Illi- nois District of the Ntional Miners’ NEW WARRANTS, $15,000 BAIL FOR CHICAGO COMMUNISTS; TEN YEARS FOR RED FLAG IN CAL; MURDER FRAMEUP Chicago Prosecutor Boasts He Will Sash Communist Party in State; Professional Labor Spy Swears “‘Rokbery with Gun” Warrants Convention Murder Charge Against Worker Arrested in Office of Needle Trades Philadelphia; Kansas City Police Attack Active organization of mass protest movements, organization of workers into the Com- | munist, Party, and intensive building of the International Labor Defense and the militant | unions, is the answet of workers determined to maintain their right to organize, and their | vight to have their own political party, even in the face of the terror now raging to drive the ; Communist Party of America underground, it was stated today in the C: P. National Office. The terror drive, dramatized by the anti-Communist campaign of lynch gangs and mur- der accompanying the railroading to 20 year sentences of Gastonia case defendants, rises simultaneously in Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Kansas City and other cities. TRY TO,SMASH PARTY. CHICAGO, Iil., Oct. 24.—District Organizer C. A. Hathaway of the Communist Party, Frank Borich, editor of Radnik, Communist Croatian language paper recently banned by the Canadian government, Carl Sklar, Nels Kjar, S. M. Milgrom, Zinich, Murphy, Herman, were Warrants ure out for 20 others. The first on charges preferred by the professional labor spy who calls himself Irving Billing, absurd charges of “robbery with a gun,” were already out on $3,000 bonds. They have now been rearrested, and their bonds raised to $15,000 apiece. |press carries long interviews with the district attorney, who boasts that he is going “to com- \pletely eliminate the Communist Party in Illinois.” is evidently for the purpose of preventing the release of these workers and thus to cripple the activity of the Party in this district. The workers are being mobilized’for an extensive defense campaign, and mass meet- ings will be held to explain the class meaning of the arrests, coming as they do exactly at the , who were already arrested The local The extraordinarily high bail demanded the Committee of 100 of the Man- | Union opens this Sundy in Lieder-|time the miners of the Illinois coal fields are awakening to the rascality of their misleadeérs “ile Jenckes Co., who had been | (Continued on Page Two) | Compares in the U.S. and in the USSR “Nothing emphasis the contrast | between the conditions of the work; | ers in the Soviet Union and in the United States as the struggles in : the southern textile field,” declared . Louis Engdahl, Communist candi- 0 has spent several viet Union, recentls a visit to Gastonia, | y and other mill cities | Workers’ Conditions « six kranz Hall, Bellevillé, Ill, the ex- (Continued on Page Two) district, when he was exposed into the National Miners’ Union. then parading under the name of Geary. TRAP STOOL PIGEON. Irving Billing, who appears in rol@ of complaining witness in the Chicago cases, is not nger to the labor movement. In 1925 he was holding a minor position in the New York as a spy in few months and expelled from the Party. He was of North Carolina where he observed conditions in the textile industry. “The Gastonia mill slaves,” Eng- dahl said, “including women and children, have been working ten, eleve nand twelve hours a day for starvation wages under the constant lash of the most merciless speed-up. | y, In the Soviet Union no worker, no worker of any With reports today of six worke a sted in Chicago’ on seditin textile charge sand held untier $90,000 bail, trade, while the seven-hour day is grad-! release wf Rade Radikovitch and (Continued on Page Two) John Voic, foreign born workers, of FLIERS REACH ~ PHICAGO FROM. - NO, PLATTE. HER a Meet. ‘Thousands ‘to . Them at Field BULLETIN. 0, Il, Oct. 24.—The four! | ARrizona, who faced deportation for membership in the Gommunist Party the International Labor pressed its campaign’ to gain 50,000 new members by Jan. 1. “A powerful ‘mss organization to combat the apparent efforts of the ODver 500 shoe workers of Brook- bosses to outlaw workers’ organiza- lyn demonstrated their solidarity tions, sue has the Communist Party, wit hthe Gastonia workers lastenight ; sabsolutely necessary,” J. L. Eng- at a regional meeting of the Inde- | dahl national secretary of the I. L. pendent Shoe Workers Union, held |p) declared. in Labor Lyceum. A resolution was 4 500 Bkn. Shoe Workers Demand Freedom of 7| Gastonia Prisoners) “With our determination to free release of the seven Gastonia mill workers and organizers railroaded at Charltte. A stim of $32 was col- lected for Gastonia Defense. Among the speakers were Fred Press ILD Membership Drive in Face of Government Terror i and the announcement of the gov- | s: | works more than eight hours a day, ernment authorities to appeal the | Defense | \in Philadelphia that William S adopted demanding the unconditional | 14. Gastonia strikers sentenced to | National Miners Union Tells This individual bobbed up at the Cleveland convention of the Trade Union Unity League as a delegate from a shop com- mittee at Chicago. He was using the name of Billings, but was recognized by New York serve as high #s 20 years comes the determination to fight this wave| Comrades and exposed to the * sweeping the land.” he Chicago comrades. His activity e need a pewerful mass/in the shop committee resulted ation and great influx of in the summary firing of the entire membership of the committee. When Billings-Geary-Billig and as many other names as he may have, learned that the game was‘up in Chicago he became the central figure in the campaign of suppression by making charges that he was held up at the point of a gun by leading Chicago comrades. funds,” Engdahl stated. He briefly reviewed the number of cases that are happening simul- taneously in the land. Beside the Chicago cases, word was received to- day from the I. L. D. headquart t, an orgahizer of the Window Clean- ers’ Union, had been framed on mur- der charge sof a policeman and a gangster. Driven to Suicide. Frm:California comes the news of _ LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oct, 24— the conviction of six months to teng Isidore Berkowitz, one of the six year terms of five workers on crimi- | defendants convicted of raising a nal syndicalist chrges for ‘flying a Ted flag over the Workers’ Interna- tional Relief children’s camp near here, committed suicide by hanging himself Tuesday following. Berko- witz was a member of the Commun- ist Party, but was extremely sick and nervoys from being gassed dur- (Continued on Page Three) ; Koes. A , 4 i de- ‘ 4 ¢ ing the world war. He was 30 years ° 9 fie 12th A e ! | Soviet fliers in the monoplane, Land Biedenknapp, gprention! ot ii ‘ Cure tor Lewis-Fishwick Mess _ aaa Hews 3 80 ys Daily’ for TMVETSALy or se a cs Mik Eee tte intro! Lar oe keel a he Curtis airport at 3 o'clock this after- | Defense; Lippa, Italian organizer of For the first time in history, the textile workers of many southern ‘noon after a non-stop flight from the union, and Andy Levine, of the mill cities, towns and villages will take part in masg meetings cele- North Platte, Neb. union. The first copy of the Inde-+ brating the anniversary of the Russian Revolution. © ee pendent Shoe Worker, organ of the Thousands of copies of the Daily Worker must be on hand for | NORTH PLATTE, Neb., Qet. 24. union, was introduced to the mem- WEST FRANFORT, IIl., Oct. 24.|while 14,000 voted to accept. The, The other victims of the raid on —The Illinois District of the Na-| Lewis and Fishwick reactionaries the camp were sentenced yesterday tional Miners Union is distributing} are now completing their work of unde rthe California indeterminate the following leaflet throughout the | destruction by taking over all pro-|sentence law, which means that coal fields of the state, explaining|perties and finances. Miners, this| within the limits set by the judge, IN-PLAZA TONTE. Toilers Called to Hear * . Labor Jury, Foster The Toronto Federation oft Labor Convention in the light fo the Trade Union Unity Convention will be the | stopie of the speech of William Z. Foster, general secretaty of the * Trade Union Unity League, tonight at Irying Plaza Hall, 15th St. and Irving Pl. Another speak will be Charles | | | gistribution when the mill workers of Atlanta, Ga., Greenville, S, C., Asheville, N. C.,.Winston-Salem, N, C,, Charlotte, N.:C., Bessemer Cjty, N. C., and Richmond and Norfolk, Va., assemble next month to celebrate the Twelfth Anniversary of the Revolution. Requests for bundles of the Daily Worker, not just for one day, but every day, have come in from the workers of all these mill centers. The workers of one of the southern mill centers in which a Twelfth Anniversary Celebration has been definitely arranged, are already as- sured of at least 30 copies of the Daily Worker daily. This is Green- ville, S. C, « This was made possible by the pledge of Section 9, Long Island, to contribute $3 cach week to the “Drive To Rush the Daily South.” —The Land of the Soviets took off from the municipal air field today jat 8:23 a. m., Central time, bound jfor Chicago, which its’ four Soviet airmen hoped to reach about 5 p. my The huge silver monoplane re ported on the wéy to Cheyenne, ar- rived here unexpectedly last eve- ning for an overnight stop. There |was no time in which to arrange an | \official reception, but a group of} | workers and airport attendants were | be the meeting. SLAVES TRANSPORTED. RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (By Mail).—-Official reports sfate that here are nqw 70,000 Japanese wor! ers and peasants in Brazil, slaving in the interior planfations. Many are placed in permanent debt. BLAST KILLS FOUR SOLDIERS. what is happening to the U.M.W.A. and why it is necessary for the District Convention in Liederkranz Hall , Belleville, Oct. 26-27-28 to lead a mass spit from the U.M.W,A, to the N, M. U. “After destroying the union by separate agreements and the steal- ing of the wage referendum as was jclearly proven ky the rank and file mines committee which canvassed«in question until final proof of own- BAR@ELONA, Spain (By Mail.) 177 Jocalss of the U.M.W.A,, with ership is established. Frank, Negro member of the labor | «jury sent by the Cleveland Conven- | (Continued on Page Two) But to the workers of Greenville, one of the main textile mill (Continued on Page Three) on hand to greet the Moscow-New |—Four soldiers were killed when a the following result: (Continued on Page Two) ‘shell exploded near here, ° ‘against the wage scale reduction is your property and your funds. the state parole board will fix a “The miners paid for the Labor | definite term. The sentences rfow Temples in Staunton, Collinsville, are: Six months to ten years each Royalton, the Miners’ Building in) for Yetta Stromberg, Emma Shnei- Springfield. Whose money bought/dermann, Jennie Wolfson, Betta all the uae of _ Drea ideal Mintz and Estor Karpiloff. All but money. The rank and file mineres és should immediately call special| Co**#ued on Page Threo) meetings and place mortgages on all} properties, tying up such property | DENVER MILKMEN ORGANIZE, DENVER, Colo. (By Mail.) —Den- |ver milk drivers Rave organized and 9,000 voted: “The program of Lewis is to in-| their first demand is for an 8-hour Continued on Page Three) day and a 25 per cent wage increase, COMMUNIST CANDIDATES TO: ADDRESS BROWNSVILLE, WILLIAMSBURG ELECTION RALLIES TONIGHT The real issues of the election, William W. Weinstone, candidate Grand Asgembly Grand St. and campaign, as distinguished from the | for mayor; H, M, Wicks, candidate | Havemeyer, where they will be ad- *fake issues raised by the democratic, for president of the Board of Alder-|dressed by Weinstone, Otto Hall, republican and socialist parties, will men; Rachel Ragozin and Alfred | Communist candidgte for comptrol- * be brought home to the workers of | Wagenknecht, will speak at 8 o'clock | ler, Joseph Magliacano and Samuel Brownsville and Williamsburgh by |at Hopkinson Mansion, 428 Hopkin- | Nesin. several of the leading candidates of |son Ave., Brownsville. These two important election ral- 4 the Communist Party at two meet-/ *At the same hour Williamsburg |lies come at a time when the work- we orkers will gather at Miller’s |ers of Brownsville and Williamsbury 4 ° have had two vivid examples of the!too, have seen the effotts of the|after the workers have succeeded in strikebreaking character of bosses’ government. strike of the gasoline truck drivers glove with the bosses, to smash the | cialists” after the Palestine events. Tammany’s police, collaborated with Independent Shoe Workers’ Union These fascists and “socialists” are the bureaucrats of the American|and to victimize militant workers. nowebusy trying to syare workers’ Federation of Labor in defeating the, In Brownsville the Corhmunist votes. efforts of the workers to improve | candidates will discuss the issues of; Qther Communict* their conditions. The shoe workers, the election campaign ony shortly will be heid tonight i ee Nakfa Bars Rte <1 Son Mgt oh elt i aap ASE Ea I adi Ll nhl Arte @ | jat the Bath Beach Workers Club, 48 the | government, through the U. S. De-| defeating the terror campaign) In the recent|partment of Labor working hand in| launched by Zionist fascists and “so-| 2 o'clock at Laurel Garden, 79 E. 116th St, Next Tuesday at 6 p. m. at Bryant Hall, Sixth Ave. and 42nd St., Weinstone, Ben Gold, Rose Wor- tis, Engdahl, Hall and others will speak. Bay 28th St., and at the Coney I land Workers Center, 2901 Mermaid Ave. 43, Louis Engdahl candidate for president of the Boro of Manhattan, t k- Build Up the U off will speak Sunday afternoon at’ the Working Class. =